Lok Sabha election 2024: World’s biggest poll kicks off as India begins voting – BBC News

Lok Sabha election 2024: World’s biggest poll kicks off as India begins voting - BBC News

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India’s parliament is made up of the Lok Sabha ( lower house ) and the Rajya Sabha (upper house ). Voting for MPs for the Lok Sabha begins now.

All Indian citizens who are 18 years or older are eligible to cast a ballot, with the exception of those who are detained for crimes or unsoundness of brain. A celebration or partnership needs to win 272 chairs in the 543-member home to form the government.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) won 303 votes in the last vote, is seeking a second consecutive term in power.

The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, or INDIA, an opposition alliance made up of more than two hundred functions, including the Congress, which predominated as the group for the first 60 times of the nation’s life until the BJP resurrected in 2014, is challenging him.